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Traditional TomoSAR requires a large number of observation orbits however, it is hard to meet the requirement of massive orbits. While on the one hand, this is due to funding constraints, on the other hand, because the target scene is changing over time and each observation orbit consumes lots of time, the number of orbits can be fewer as required within a narrow time window. When the number of observation orbits is insufficient, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), peak-to-sidelobe ratio (PSR), and resolution of 3D reconstruction results will decline severely, which seriously limits the practical application of TomoSAR. In order to solve this problem, we propose to use a deep learning network to improve the resolution and SNR of 3D reconstruction results under the condition of very few observation orbits by learning the prior distribution of targets. We use all available orbits to reconstruct a high resolution target, while only very few (around 3) orbits to reconstruct a low resolution input. The low-res and high-res 3D voxel-grid pairs are used to train a 3D super-resolution (SR) CNN (convolutional neural network) model, just like ordinary 2D image SR tasks. Experiments on the Civilian Vehicle Radar dataset show that the proposed deep learning algorithm can effectively improve the reconstruction both in quality and in quantity. 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